The HIMSS Innovation Center proudly presents its new tribute display to Florence Nightingale on the anniversary of her birthday, May 12, which is also Nursing Informatics Awareness Day. Florence Nightingale is considered to be the founder of modern nursing, and many people in the field of healthcare feel she built the foundation for nursing informatics.

9th Annual Ohio Healthcare Information Technology Day(OHIT Day) was held on April 27th. This event was a collaborative effort with a variety of organizations that brought the issue of healthcare information technology (Health IT) to the forefront of the political discussion.

The ConCert by HIMSS program streamlines the certification of interoperability in health IT and helps you evaluate vendor claims, simplifying the task of selecting the right information systems for your organization.

HIMSS Innovation Center welcomed over 200 Cuyahoga High School Students to our floor to participate in the “We are the Majority Rally”. This is the 3rd year the rally has been held in Cleveland, 2nd year they have called the HIMSS Innovation Center homebase. This rally is an Ohio wide effort coordinated locally by Kelly Lazar from the Community Awareness and Prevention Association; in collaboration with the Cuyahoga County Board of Health - Opiate Task Force and numerous other community based organizations.

HIMSS Innovation Center in Cleveland, offered graduate level students in health administration the opportunity to apply their coursework to a real-world situation by developing recommendations for a team of executives at an internationally recognized health system.

The interactive HIE infographic was released on Tuesday, March 1st at HIMSS16 and was located in the IHE booth in the Interoperability Showcase. The infographic allows the reader to scroll through (or click the gray up and down arrows) to view a side-by-side comparison of a patient visit WITH and WITHOUT and HIE. The end result is to show the value of having an HIE, which allows the patient data to be anywhere at any time.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society hosted Zoetic Global, a US-based project developer in energy and agriculture, for an open house featuring controlled environment agriculture solutions and renewable energy contributing to the improvement of populations throughout the developing world.

The spirit of collaboration to improve patient care through high quality, interoperable health information technology (IT) was in the air in Cleveland, Ohio when the IHE North American Connectathon Week 2016 kicked off on January 25 at the co-located facilities of the Cleveland Convention Center, the Global Center for Health Innovation, and the HIMSS Innovation Center

ConCert by HIMSSTM today announced that four products have received the ConCert by HIMSS mark after completing a comprehensive pilot program that tests and certifies electronic health record (EHR) and health information exchange (HIE) vendors. These organizations are committed to advancing interoperability and enabling secure and reliable transfer of data within and across organizational and state boundaries.

Quality and effective patient care includes the use of health information technology, that is, a system in which patients and their clinicians can easily and securely access health information -- anytime and anywhere. As a result, those patients receive the right care at the right time to make informed decisions.

From Jan. 25-29, more than 500 software engineers will come together at the Cleveland Convention Center and the HIMSS Innovation Center, at the Global Center for Health Innovation, for the inaugural IHE USA North American Connectathon Week

Have we reached a tipping point where innovation is no longer viewed as the ‘sexy’ addition to leadership meeting agendas, but instead a true business imperative? Explore with blog post by Leslie Wainwright, PhD, AVIA, Chief Strategy Officer.

HIMSS spent $2 million outfitting the entire fourth floor of the Global Center into an exhibition and product-testing center. The bright lights and colors, multi-media kiosks and touchscreens the size of big screen TVs impressed a crowd accustomed to state-of-the-art technology.

A long-discussed pedestrian bridge that would link the Cleveland's new downtown convention center with the lakefront is being pursued once again following the project's failure to win a federal transportation grant in September.

On Tuesday, October 15th, in conjunction with the 2013 Medical Innovation Summit, HIMSS welcomed nearly 1,000 visitors to the HIMSS Innovation Center, a part of the Global Center for Health Innovation, in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. and Cuyahoga County have chosen convention center management company SMG to manage operations of Cleveland's new medical mart and convention center, the Global Center for Health Innovation and the Cleveland Convention Center, they announced this week.

HIMSS, the global, cause-based, not-for-profit organization focused on better health through IT, announced the opening of the HIMSS Innovation Center as part of the Global Center for Health Innovation, in downtown Cleveland.

September 30, 2013 marks the reporting deadline for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals participating the EHR Incentive Programs, in addition to the end of the federal government’s fiscal year and the last day of the 2013 meaningful use program year.

On Aug. 9, HIMSS WorldWide President & CEO H. Stephen Lieber, CAE, provided his insights on the role of broadband technology in health IT to the City Club of Cleveland. His presentation was one of five in the series, Broadband: understanding the fiber of our region, presented by the City Club and OneCommunity, a nonprofit organization focused on the expansion of high-speed broadband access and adoption to strengthen Northeast Ohio.

The HIMSS Innovation Center, as the anchor tenant in the Global Center for Health Innovation in Cleveland, Ohio, joined the celebration marking the opening of the new HIMSS Cleveland Convention Center.

In February, HIMSS announced its commitment to be part of the Global Center for Health Innovation. The Global Center, which is the only facility in the world that displays the future of health and healthcare, is adjacent to the Cleveland Convention Center, which attracts healthcare providers year-round.

Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald announced earlier today that the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, known as HIMSS, will be leasing on the fourth level 12,500 square feet for its Innovation Center, a unique and dynamic testing, demonstration, exhibition, and educational facility, with another 12,500 square feet of exhibition space, of the newly-named Global Center for Health Innovation (formerly the Cleveland Medical Mart).